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For construction & skilled tradesConstruction crew scheduling & labor allocation across job sites
A construction day is a sequence, not a static plan: trades hand off to trades, weather intervenes, inspections slip. Winning the day means putting the right crew on the right phase — and reshuffling fast without losing anyone. Here’s how.
Who runs the crew
On site, the superintendent owns the schedule across the project and the foreman is the front-line leader who turns that schedule into today’s tasks and directs the crew. Journeymen and skilled tradespeople — carpenters, electricians, plumbers — do the licensed work; apprentices and laborers assist and keep the site moving. The daily assignment decides which trades work which zones and phases, and in what order.
Assigning crews to phases
Build the board around the sequence: foundation, framing, rough-in, finish. Each phase needs the right trades in the right order, and stacking two dependent phases on one crew stalls the whole job. Weigh:
- Trade & skill — the task dictates the trade; assign by capability first.
- Sequence & dependencies — don’t send finish crews into a zone that isn’t roughed-in yet.
- Crew size — enough journeymen and apprentices with the right skills for the day’s scope.
- Site & travel — for multi-site builders, cluster a crew’s work to cut drive time.
A crew standing in a zone that isn’t ready is pure cost. Before you place a crew, confirm the predecessor task is done — and keep a fallback task ready in case it isn’t.
Certification & safety gating
Some tasks are gated by license or certification — heavy machinery, electrical, confined-space, crane work. The assignment is also a safety control: only certified workers should be checked into those tasks, and an uncertified worker should never end up on the equipment line-up. Note the requirement on the task and assign only qualified crew.
Weather & the reshuffle
Rain halts the concrete pour at Site A. The wrong response is to send everyone home; the right one is to reroute. Move the affected crews to indoor or off-critical-path work — drywall, finish, prep, or a task at Site B — and change as little else as possible. On a whiteboard that reshuffle is chaos; on a live board it’s one clear edit that every foreman and crew sees at once.
One live lineup the whole job can see
The daily lineup taped to the job trailer is invisible to a crew across the site and wrong the moment anything moves. A live board puts today’s assignment on every phone: which crew is on which zone and phase, what changed, and where the gaps are — across every site in the portfolio.
AssignMe speaks construction: areas are zones and phases, roles are trades, foremen and laborers, and Tunza AI can build the day, gate uncertified labor off equipment tasks, and reroute crews when weather hits. The board is free to run; the AI is an optional flat add-on.
Put the crew lineup on every phone
Assign crews to zones and phases, gate certifications, and reshuffle for weather in seconds.
Start free See how it worksCommon questions
Does it handle multiple job sites?
Yes — run a board per site or one portfolio view, and move crews between sites when the plan changes.
How do crews see their assignment?
They scan a read-only QR link and see today’s zone and phase on their phone — no account or app.
Can it block uncertified workers from equipment?
Note the certification a task requires and assign only qualified crew, so heavy-machinery tasks are never filled by uncertified labor.